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TILE HEARTH OR VBSTIBULE FLOOR.

No. 287,373. Patented Oct. 23, 1883.

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ISAAC L. FRANKEM, OF INDIANAPOLIS,"INDIANA.

TILE HEARTH OR VESTIBULE FLOOR.

2 v SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,373,. dated October 23, 1 883.

Application filed April 4,1883. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC 'L. FRANKEM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, county of Marion and State of In- 5 diana, have invented a new and useful Portable Tile Hearth or vestibule-Floor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tile hearths, vestibule-floors, and other similar spaces laid with tiles; and has for its object to provide them in portable form, such as may be manufactured of the required dimensions to fitinto theplace of permanent location, suitable to be transported thereto, and so that they may be set in I 5 a neat and substantial manner by any one skilled in ordinary housebuilding, without the aid of an artificer in tile setting, thereby enabling persons at a distance from them to have such hearths, vestibule-floors, &c., without the extra cost that would otherwise attach to the personal attendance of a tile-setter. I attain this object by means of a case or frame-work made preferably of sheet or cast metal, in which to bed the tiles, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a top or face view of a portable tile hearth embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the case to receivethe bedding and tile. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section 011 line a m, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section of Fig. 2.

Similarletters refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

The case or frame in which the tiles arebed- 3 5 .ded is made of sheet or cast metal having the sides and ends A and convex or arched bottom B. The case may bestrengthened, if necchantable form of tile hearths, of the case or essary, by means of transverse ribs 0, and these ribs may befianged at the top, to form a hold for the cement 011 which the tiles are bedded. There are also flanged cleats D, attached to the bottom, which serve to secure the cement. E is the cement, and Fthe tiles. There may also be strengthening-ribs G attached under the bottom of the case. The tiles are bedded in cement in the usual manner.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is A 1. The combination, in a portable or merframe A B, with flanged cleats 'D, and either with or without ribs 0 G, with the bedding E and tiles F, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improvement in the art of manu facturing tile hearths, vestibule-floors, and other like structures of eneaustic or other tiles, the case or pan herein described, having strengthening-bars, and lugs for holding a layer of cement within the case orpan, alayer of cement, and a surface course of tiles em bedded therein; and by which they are held in place, as set forth.

3. As anew article of manufacture, ahearth or vestibule-floor composed of tiles held in place by a layer of cement, the tiles and cement being held together by a suitable box or pan, as set forth.

ISAAC L. FRANKEM.

Witnesses:

O. F. MAYHnw, SIDNEY W. Colin. 

